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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

Milton Friedman age 25
Ruhollah Khomeini age 34
Valentina Tereshkova age 4 months
Pol Pot age 12
Wilhelm II age 78
Akihito age 3
Josip Broz Tito age 45
Helmut Kohl age 7
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 33
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 19
Rosa Parks age 24
Shimon Peres age 14
Sukarno age 36
John Paul I age 24
Anwar Sadat age 18
Paul VI age 39
Willy Brandt age 23
Dag Hammarskjöld age 32
Salvador Allende age 29
Pius XII age 61
John von Neumann age 33
Augusto Pinochet age 21
Lee Kuan Yew age 13
Suharto age 16
Ariel Sharon age 9
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 19
Desmond Tutu age 5
Manmohan Singh age 4
Yuri Andropov age 23
Buzz Aldrin age 7
Pierre de Coubertin age 74
Patrice Lumumba age 12
Yitzhak Rabin age 15
Rosalind Franklin age 17
Andrei Sakharov age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 57
Raúl Castro age 6
Giorgio Napolitano age 12
Idi Amin age 12
Erwin Rommel age 45
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 17
Helmut Schmidt age 18
Rachel Carson age 30
Corazon Aquino age 4
Edward VIII age 43
Madeleine Albright age 2 months
José Mujica age 2
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 13
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 60
Wernher von Braun age 25
Eva Perón age 18
Harald V of Norway age 5 months
George C. Marshall age 56
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 5 months
Enver Hoxha age 28
Martti Ahtisaari age 1 month
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 1
Konstantin Chernenko age 25
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 5
Jiang Zemin age 10
Zhou Enlai age 39
Eduard Shevardnadze age 9
Robert F. Kennedy age 11
Pranab Mukherjee age 1
Park Chung-hee age 19
Anthony Eden age 40
Menachem Begin age 23
Philippe Pétain age 81
Erich Honecker age 24
Hafez al-Assad age 6
Harold Macmillan age 43
Harold Wilson age 21
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 272
James Callaghan age 25
Pratibha Patil age 2
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 9
Eva Braun age 25
Juan Perón age 41
Heydar Aliyev age 14
Norodom Sihanouk age 14
Kim Dae-jung age 13
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 14
Aldo Moro age 20
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 30
F. W. de Klerk age 1
Ludwig Erhard age 40
Kurt Waldheim age 18
Mobutu Sese Seko age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 43
Julius Nyerere age 15
Donald Rumsfeld age 5
Olof Palme age 10
Süleyman Demirel age 12
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 21
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 44
Jonas Salk age 22
Karl Dönitz age 45
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 4
Pierre Trudeau age 17
Fulgencio Batista age 36
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 70
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 48
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 14
Syngman Rhee age 62
U Thant age 28
George S. Patton age 51
Colin Powell age 3 months
Giulio Andreotti age 18
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 11 months
Hideki Tojo age 52
Alexander Dubček age 15
Francesco Cossiga age 9
Leonid Kravchuk age 3
Puyi age 31
Ahmed Ben Bella age 20
Bernard Montgomery age 49
Richard von Weizsäcker age 17
Albert Speer age 32
Albert II of Belgium age 3
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 2
Rajendra Prasad age 52
Alexander Kerensky age 56
Turgut Özal age 9
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 61
Eisaku Satō age 36
Georgy Malenkov age 35
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 16
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 17
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 31
Sergei Korolev age 30
Reinhard Heydrich age 33
Edward Heath age 21
Alfonso XIII age 51
Walter Mondale age 9
Paul Biya age 4
Lester B. Pearson age 40
Hussein I of Jordan age 1
Habib Bourguiba age 34
Claus von Stauffenberg age 29
Martin Bormann age 37
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 6
B. J. Habibie age 1
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 16
Hastings Banda age 47
Moshe Dayan age 22
Trygve Lie age 41
Stanley Baldwin age 70
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 7
Johannes Rau age 6
Yasuo Fukuda age 1
Franz von Papen age 57
Ramsay MacDonald age 70
Omar Bongo age 1
Celâl Bayar age 54
Alija Izetbegović age 11
Subhas Chandra Bose age 40
Franjo Tuđman age 15
Jorge Rafael Videla age 12
Urho Kekkonen age 36
Walter Ulbricht age 44
Isoroku Yamamoto age 53
Wilhelm Keitel age 54
Hubert Humphrey age 26
Charles G. Dawes age 71
Nelson Rockefeller age 29
Alec Douglas-Home age 34
Alcide De Gasperi age 56
Hassan II age 8
Cemal Gürsel age 41
Kenneth Kaunda age 13
Léon Blum age 65
Robert Schuman age 51
Alfred Rosenberg age 44
Georgi Dimitrov age 55
Imre Nagy age 41
Andrei Gromyko age 28
Erich Ludendorff age 72
Kliment Voroshilov age 56
Spiro Agnew age 18
Carlos Menem age 7
Kenan Evren age 20
Roman Herzog age 3
Stjepan Mesić age 2
Isaac Shamir age 21
Michel Aoun age 3
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 12
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 19
Umberto II of Italy age 32
Ngo Dinh Diem age 36
Henry A. Wallace age 48
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 2 months
Abdullah I of Jordan age 55
Ion Iliescu age 7
Bülent Ecevit age 12
Kim Young-sam age 9
Erich von Manstein age 49
Chaim Weizmann age 62
Sandro Pertini age 40
Theodor Heuss age 53